Celebrity Influences
Jodi Sealey
Humanities 341
Dr. John DeSando
March 13, 2008

Celebrity Influences

Plastic surgery that changes the body image of a celebrity, does it influence the way non-celebrities view beauty? Kelly Rowland, formerly of Destiny’s Child admitted she had breast implants. What message does that say to her admirers? If you do not like what God has given you alter that part of your body to your own creation of beauty. Or to the shape ourselves to celebrity cookie cutter mode society says this is what we should look like. “Kelly says she did it to simply feel more beautiful and to fit into more fashionable clothing” (People Magazine 2008). What ever happened to being grateful for good health instead of being so shallow in our skin that we must change ourselves to fit into celebrity ideal of beauty? According to Jessica Wienner, “We are addicted to quick fixes and it becomes dangerous when we use plastic surgery as a quick fix” (CNN 2008). In Kelly’s defense she does say it is a personal choice and to think about life altering decisions. (Pahwa 2008).
Ashley Tisdale of High School Musical had a nose job. Ashley says, she got her nose job for medical reasons,"Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing" (People Magazine, 2007). Why not just corrective surgery? Instead she changed the look of her nose completely.
Pamela Anderson went from an A cup to an EEE cup. She is an iconic celebrity sexual symbol in popular culture enhanced by plastic surgery.
Jeniffer Lopez, nose job, lip injection, and eye job, what plastic surgery has Jeniffer not had? Michael Jackson is totally plastic. Is this saying to our young people that if your nose or other body parts not quite perfect, we can change them to an image we identify with, maybe a celebrity image. Why else do we look at magazines, television, and advertisements and take the image to the hair dresser or to the very extreme, to the plastic surgeon, to get that celebrity cookie cutter look? Celebrities and their plastic surgery are portrayed in the media as if this is true beauty an everything else is just average. What is wrong with being average? God given breast size, an imperfect nose, slanted eyes, less full lips, and lower check bones. Everyone can not fit into a “Barbie” look of the plastic celebrity cookie cutter mode.

References

Anderson, B. (Reporter). (2008 March, 8). Show Biz Tonight with A.J. Hammer. CNN network Hollywood, California
Pahwa, K. (2008, March 7). Kelly Rowland surgery. Todays News section: Today’s Happenings. Retrieved March 9, 2008 from www.topnews.in/light/kelly-rowland-comes-clean-boob-job-27594
Salkin, K. (2007, December, 18) Ashley Tisdale: Nose surgery recovery “taking longer”. People Magazine 105